Pastoral Resources

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.